On May 17, in Kim Loan commune, 72 kilometers far from Cao Bang, VACNE in collaboration with Cao Bang Association for Conservation of Nature & Environment and Ha Lang District People’s Committee held the ceremony to honor a thousand-year old “Nghien” tree growing on the way to Lung Tung village as Vietnam Heritage Tree.
Read moreOn 19 December 2010 the workshop on “Living Green- Easy or Not?” took place successfully at the Great Hall of University of Natural Sciences in Hanoi. This was an event within the project “Capacity Building towards sustainable lifestyles” coordinated by UNEP with the generous support of SGS-Switzerland and SGS-Vietnam
Read moreTime: 8.30am-16.30pm, Sunday, the 19th December 2010
Venue: Main Hall – 2nd floor – Hanoi University of Pharmacy
13-15 Le Thanh Tong, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
Language: Vietnamese
Participant: 50-70 youths (lunch will be served)
A workshop on “People right-based natural forest management” was held by the Center for Development of Community Intinitive (C&E), the Centre for Education and Communication of Environment (CEACE) and the Forestry Science – Technology Association of Thua Thien Hue province under the sponsor of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Foundation- Germany, coordination to organize. This workshop objective is to create opportunities for exchanges and sharing of information and experience among communities, state management agencies and other stakeholders, and then synthesize and come up with appropriate recommendations and solutions for improvement of policies, contributing to sustainable forest management in Vietnam.
Read moreAre you a student and interested in the power of images/multimedia? Are you concerned about sustainability and how your behaviour could have consequences for now and the future? Then take action now by creating a 60-second film for web! Be creative and become famous!
Read moreMore than 200 youths from environment clubs and universities/colleges in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Hai
Phong, Da Nang participated in the launch of the campaign “Green Generation joins Eco-Handprints”
last weekend (5th and 6t h June 2010).
Vietnam Green Generation Network would like to share the event results as follows:
• Number of participating clubs: 16 (Hanoi), 2 (Hai Phong), 8 (Da Nang), 6 (Ho Chi Minh) from
19 universities and colleges
• And 17 representatives from government agencies, local and international NGOs
• Total number of initiatives: over 70
“Young people today constitute an important group within our consumer societies, and the habit they develop now will play a decisive role in future consumption patterns. Their decisions as consumers exercise a growing influence on markets and lifestyles. Therefore, they deserve special attention in efforts to change wasteful consumption patterns into ones that are more attuned to sustainable development”- Achim Steiner- Executive Director UNEP and Koïchiro Matsura, Director- General UNESCO
Read moreLet’s imagine that every morning, you get to work and enjoy more of
the fresh air and less of the fuel from the combustion of the
motorbikes and cars in Hanoi! Fortunately, this scenario is possible
in Hanoi and our individual choice of transport mode everyday is a
part of the solution.
On behalf of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) organises the Advanced International Training Programme “Climate Change – Mitigation & Adaptation” (http://www.smhi.se/cmp/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=9821&a=28355&l=en).
Read moreThe He Xanh (VGGN) is so happy when we, “green change agents” have had a wonderful meeting today. On behalf
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